If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation. Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. If all this feels overly depressing, let us acknowledge that the human losses we see round us aren't due to any of these analytical difficulties. Dasgupta provides an intelligent and unconfined introduction to key economic factors and ideas and sketches a comparison between countries(rich and poor). He makes a case for how economic models can not only help us interpret the conditions that determine society but improve it, proposing ways to integrate environmental concerns and social well-being which are all too often neglected in the literature.

It is clear that the author favors state intervention in terms of economic policies and possibly deliberately leaves out certain economic schools of thought.While the author ambles through a few pertinent paragraphs in the first half of the book, the second half is almost completely divorced from the subject matter. I read this book because I wanted to understand in concise and authoritative terms some of the basic concepts and features within economics - national debts, credit ratings, interest rates etc. Meanwhile, this book's author bypasses this Western history, and it could not save him from liberalism's global shadow anyways: Classical liberals (many being ivory tower intellectuals of the British empire) were predictably biased with imperialism, so imagine using their ideology to address America vs. The author represents the lives of two girls(Becky and Desta) who live very distinct lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and Ethiopia. As Dasgupta himself remarks in the very beginning of the book, "one way or another we are all economists".

As in, that stuff that happened a long, long time ago, but there is no modern history because we now have the science of (liberal) economics and political "independence"/ "democracy"! For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management.

Of course, one should ask why it is that the Europeans managed to colonize the tropics; why colonization didn’t take place the other way round. The abysmal quality of this book reflects poorly not just on the author but on this series as a whole. In sintesi, chi desidera capire i meccanismi dell'economia non troverà questo volume particolarmente interessante. These pro-capitalist economists consolidated around a new framework (of classless selfish individuals and harmonious equilibriums, a utopia more fanciful than communism) which they labelled as "Neoclassical" economics, today's "mainstream economics". I must confess that I have trouble seeing where the objections in some of the other reviews come from.